"Locate X–and other similar services–are able to do this by taking advantage of our largely unregulated location data market.

Unfettered location tracking puts us all at risk. Law enforcement agencies can purchase their way around warrant requirements and bad actors can pay for services that make it easier to engage in stalking and harassment. Location tracking tools particularly threaten groups especially vulnerable to targeting, such as immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, and even U.S. intelligence personnel abroad. Crucially, in a post-Dobbs United States, location surveillance also poses a serious danger to abortion-seekers across the country.

EFF has warned before about how the location data market threatens reproductive rights. The recent reports on Locate X illustrate even more starkly how the collection and sale of location data endangers patients in states with abortion bans and restrictions."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/location-tracking-tools-endanger-abortion-access-lawmakers-must-act-now

#USA #LocationData #DataProtection #Privacy #LocateX #Surveillance

Handel mit #Standortdaten!
@netzpolitik_feed hat im Juli diesbezüglich schon was veröffentlicht:
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/databroker-files-firma-verschleudert-36-milliarden-standorte-von-menschen-in-deutschland/

Im Oktober dann etwas zu #LocateX:
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/locate-x-die-verstoerend-leichte-massenueberwachung-mit-standortdaten/

Heute ist auch der #örr da angekommen, Juchhu!
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/br-recherche/militaereinrichtungen-standortdaten-sicherheitsrisiko-100.html

Erschreckend, in meinem Umfeld interessiert das nur ganz, ganz wenige. Ständig #HabeNichtsZuVerbergen! Selbst ein #systemadministrator:'Als wenn denen die Daten von uns kleinen Bürger interessieren würde?'

Ja, tut es! Die Summe ist das fatale!

"Officials inside the Secret Service clashed over whether they needed a warrant to use location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on smartphones, with some arguing that citizens have agreed to be tracked with such data by accepting app terms of service, despite those apps often not saying their data may end up with the authorities, according to hundreds of pages of internal Secret Service emails obtained by 404 Media.

The emails provide deeper insight into the agency’s use of Locate X, a powerful surveillance capability that allows law enforcement officials to follow a phone, and person’s, precise movements over time at the click of a mouse. In 2023, a government oversight body found that the Secret Service, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement all used their access to such location data illegally. The Secret Service told 404 Media in an email last week it is no longer using the tool."

https://www.404media.co/fyi-a-warrant-isnt-needed-secret-service-says-you-agreed-to-be-tracked-with-location-data/

#USA #LocationData #Geolocation #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection #Intelligence #LocateX

Another day, another way that government agencies do an end-run around the 4th Amendment by getting your data from private data brokers. In this case, it's the US Secret Service, Customs and Border Patrol, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — aka ICE or "la Migra" — getting your location data from a tool called "Locate X".

https://www.404media.co/fyi-a-warrant-isnt-needed-secret-service-says-you-agreed-to-be-tracked-with-location-data/

#security #surveillance #tracking #LocateX #spying #opsec #4thAmendment

Headline: 'FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed': Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data

Subtitle: The Secret Service has used a technology called #LocateX which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones. Because users agreed to an opaque terms of service page, the #SecretService believes it doesn't need a warrant.

Source: https://www.404media.co/fyi-a-warrant-isnt-needed-secret-service-says-you-agreed-to-be-tracked-with-location-data/

#Privacy

'FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed': Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data

https://www.404media.co/fyi-a-warrant-isnt-needed-secret-service-says-you-agreed-to-be-tracked-with-location-data/

#PrivacyMatters #StopWarrantlessTracking #LocateX

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/creators-police-location-tracking-tool-arent-vetting-buyers-heres-how-protect

Babel Street operates a tool called Locate X which collects phone location info from a LARGE variety of sources. The tool is intended for use by Law Enforcement

The worrisome part is that Babel Street is not properly vetting users. Simply claiming to potentially work WITH Law Enforcement at some point in the future, is enough to gain access. Resulting in a Privacy Nightmare for every phone user everywhere.

#Privacy #Security #BabelStreet #LocateX #EFF

Most of the articles I've seen about #LocateX fail to state /where/ the data actually comes from so people can protect themselves.

#EFF says they actually buy historical user geolocation data from other app companies.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-government-buys-our-cell-phone-location-data

#databrokers #privacy #surveillance